Book Downloads

If you have a copy of the new book, Tradeshow Success: 14 Proven Steps to Take Your Tradeshow Marketing to the Next Level, you are referred to this site to grab a few downloads, notably a couple of spreadsheets, along with the Tradeshowguy Exhibitor Toolkit.

You can also read the book for free here at TradeshowSuccessBook.com. You’ll be asked to opt-in to a mailing list to get free access to the digital version.

There is another, fuller version of the TradeshowGuy Exhibitor Toolkit available. It costs $37 and also gives you a Workbook version of the Tradeshow Success book, along with a signed copy of my book. Get it here.

As for the free book downloads mentioned in the book, keep reading…

It’s all contained the Tradeshowguy Exhibitor’s Toolkit:

It’s a collection of concepts, ideas, practices and strategies to assist you and your team to a much better tradeshow exhibiting experience than you’re currently having.

Simply put, we believe that every exhibitor should have direct and easy access to tools and strategies that allow them to have a better exhibiting experience.

We’re tired of exhibitors spending a ton of money on bad or incomplete advice, on exhibits that don’t accurately represent their brand, and being taken advantage of companies that claim to have all the answers.

We’ve assembled this toolkit with an eye to bringing home more leads, creating more brand awareness, and drawing a crowd of enthusiastic people at your booth.

So what will you find in this collection?

Everything in this collection is in PDF form (with the exception of a spreadsheet or two), so if you’re reading this, you’ll have no trouble accessing all of the materials.

Let’s start with the main piece called simply the Tradeshow Exhibitor’s Toolkit. It’s a 20-page look at how to specifically apply several practices to your tradeshow strategizing. It starts at the beginning, showing you how to determine your overall objectives for tradeshow marketing, and then for each show.

Then we get into nuts and bolts of building a budget, which shows to attend, pre-show planning including social media engagement, your company booth, show execution, tradeshow booth staff training, lead generation, post-show follow-up and record keeping so that it becomes easier to keep track of things show to show and year to year.

That’s it in a nutshell.

In addition, you’ll find the e-books that I mentioned, including the first one I wrote back in 2009, and revised in 2013. “Twittering Your Way to Tradeshow Success” may seem a little dated, but it’s short and there are some good ideas and observations in it, so I included it.

Up next is “101 Rules of Tradeshow Marketing” which was downloaded over 3000 times in the first couple of years of its admittedly small release. A quick and fun read which you could probably scan easily over a cup of coffee.

You’ll also find the digital version of a small book I self-published in early 2014 as a giveaway to several exhibitors and potential clients. “Super Networking at Events and Tradeshows Using Social Media” is about 75 pages long and covers about every angle I could think of regarding events, tradeshows and social media.

There’s also a special report called “The Future of Tradeshows” written by Lew Hoff and myself and assembled by Bartizan Connects.

There are a couple of spreadsheets to help with your tradeshow budgeting and your ROI. The former is based on several iterations that I’ve put together over the years and made available on my blog. The ROI calculator comes courtesy of Handshake.

Elsewhere you’ll find a contact file with all of my personal and social media contact points. Feel free to reach out, follow, connect, tweet and otherwise tell me who you are and what you’re doing.

So…enjoy – and my best wishes for a great tradeshow experience with lots of visitors, growing lead generation, and increased branding and awareness to you and your company!

Best regards,

Tim Patterson

@tradeshowguy on Twitter

Call me anytime at 503-507-4110

Download Your Exhibitor’s Kit Here

Here’s where to download all of the goodies (PDFs or Excel Spreadsheets):

Okay, now for some fun stuff. I’ve been making and posting videos for years on YouTube.com at the Tradeshow Marketing channel, and some of them may be very useful for your continuing education into sharpening your tradeshow strategy. Let’s take a look at a few, okay?

In it, I walk viewers through the three main questions anyone should ask if they are in the market for a new exhibit:

Up next: a series of case studies on the use of social media relating to event marketing, starting with gDiapers:

Then comes a case study of Criterion Machine, a company that used social media to increase awareness and leads in the industrial world:

Now let’s take a look at managing social media for an event from a long ways away – a continent or two away, in fact:

Here’s an idea I explored in an 8-minute video on using webinars to promote your tradeshow appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRYcfnGHi_Y

Now let’s learn what it means to hire a professional presenter at your next tradeshow appearance. This is a long discussion that I had with Ken Newman of Magnet Productions and Andy Saks of Spark Presentations. Fun and very informative, especially if you don’t really know what it means when you hire a pro for your booth:

And while there are a LOT more videos at the Tradeshow Marketing YouTube channel, let’s mention just one more: Rooibee Red Tea’s approach to Tradeshow Marketing. I discussed the topic with Creative Director Zachary Anderson:

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